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Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests

Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça invented Trovador, a six-legged, A.I.-powered robot that can plant trees in ...

Uncovering a new genetic code in archaea opens doors for bioengineering applications

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...